Bright and early at 6:28 a.m., the MBTA reported one of its new Springfield specials on the Orange Line refused to budge from Forest Hills. The train has since been shoved out of the way.
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By adamg - 1/21/24 - 12:16 pm
Jamaica Plain News talks to Eversource about what caused Thursday night's outage in Jamaica Plain, which at its peak took out power to more than 4,400 residences and businesses.
By adamg - 1/18/24 - 9:42 pm
Update, 10:50 a.m. Eversource says it's restored almost all the power, except to 10 customers.
Around 9 p.m., the lights began blinking out in Jamaica Plain. As of 9:35, Eversource is reporting 4,438 homes and businesses in Boston without power, most of them in JP, and most of those clustered in the area between Jamaica Pond, the Arboretum and Franklin Park, about as far north as Parley Avenue and Green Street. Read more.
By adamg - 1/10/24 - 3:42 pm
It was pretty dark and stormy looking over the Charles as our own Ron Newman made his way over the Longfellow around 1:30 p.m.
Earlier though, roving UHub photographer David Fisher captured a rainbow over Jamaica Plain, then a full up Fort Point Channel (on the South Boston side): Read more.
By adamg - 1/8/24 - 3:33 pm
A scared citizen files a 311 complaint about the northbond stretch of Centre Street that is really the parkway where houses sit in front of the Arboretum just before the Giant Rotary of Doom in Jamaica Plain: Read more.
By adamg - 1/7/24 - 10:47 pm
Via Jamaica Plain and Roslindale Facebook groups comes the news that Cafe Beirut on Centre Street closed for good yesterday. Read more.
By adamg - 1/2/24 - 1:02 pm
A concerned citizen files a 311 complaint about one of the clock faces in the tower at the Forest Hills MBTA station: Read more.
By adamg - 12/24/23 - 12:25 pm
TheBostonLOL forwards this photo of a tiny tree in Franklin Park that somebody wrapped with a blue tree skirt and decorated with a single red ornament, just like Charlie Brown would do.
By adamg - 12/22/23 - 5:01 pm
Jamaica Plain is suddenly awash in pizza news. The day after Mario's held a soft opening at its new Hyde Square location comes news that the developer behind the condos going in where Doyle's used to be has a deal with Stoked Pizza to move into the ground-floor space and second-floor balcony where Forest Hills' Brassica once planned to open. Read more.
By adamg - 12/19/23 - 10:46 am
Rendering by Stantec. See it larger.
The group working to bring professional women's soccer to Boston yesterday filed detailed plans for its part of the overhaul of the decaying, fire-ravaged White Stadium in Franklin Park, which includes a new soccer pitch, replacement of bleachers with individual seats, a separate dining area including room for food trucks, a year-round restaurant and a beer garden and overhanging shade over the seats designed as an homage to the surrounding greenery. Read more.
By adamg - 12/18/23 - 9:38 am
Update, 12:45 p.m.: Outage numbers now around 6,112 in Boston, with numerous outages in Hyde Park and Mattapan.
As of 9:30 a.m., Eversource reported more than 3,400 businesses and homes in Boston have lost power - including 1,600 or so in Roxbury, where falling tree limbs knocked out power at 6:32 a.m. and 1,400 in Jamaica Plain, where the power went off at 8:09 a.m.
By adamg - 12/14/23 - 11:23 am
The Boston Licensing Board today approved plans by Mario Bailote to re-open the old Oggi pizza place at 8 Perkins St. as Mario's Pizza. Read more.
By adamg - 12/7/23 - 3:32 pm
From the complaint: Goon finger-shooting performer and parent at Taunton drag-queen story hour.
The state Attorney General's office today sued the state's home-grown Nazi group and two of its leaders on civil-rights and conspiracy charges for using violence and intimidation against drag-queen story hours, immigrants and just random people over the past couple of years, including in Jamaica Plain, the Seaport and on a pedestrian bridge over Storrow Drive. Read more.
By adamg - 12/4/23 - 10:32 am
Jamaica Plain News reports on the overdue record - which BPL no longer had in its database, since it no longer lends out LPs. But, phew, no fine, since BPL no longer charges late fees.
By adamg - 12/1/23 - 9:42 am
The group working to bring a women's professional soccer team to Boston will soon file detailed renovation plans for turning the dilapidated White Stadium into a state-of-the-art soccer arena to be shared with Boston Public Schools and the general public - to be opened in time for the start of the 2026 National Women's Soccer League season. Read more.
By adamg - 11/22/23 - 11:43 am
Jamaica Plain News reports the T decided it was time to remove the old poles along Centre Street before they started falling on people's heads.
By adamg - 11/18/23 - 12:21 pm
The hooded mergansers are back at Jamaica Pond for their annual fall visit.
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